It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Gryphon's Eyrie.
The levels of awfulness in that first line get you. Not only is Muir equating immigration with an actual invasion by a hostile army, but he is using the death of a fictional character at the hands of a fictional immigrant he created to show how this is the real threat that is being ignored.
In favor of stopping a fascist invasion of another nation that could easily escalate if left unchecked. But then Muir's foreign policy resembles his domestic policy, as exemplified by adding a stupid Washington joke to a call to kill the entire legislative branch. Stupid vileness that thinks it is clever and upright.
Regarding the first line referring to Jack's death, I think the strip a couple of days ago was actually even worse. It couples Jack's fictional (and, might I add, accidental) death with the real-life DELIBERATE murder of Laken Riley. Something about that just seems super gross to me. And now that I think about it, you could almost see it as symbolic of how Muir can no longer separate real life from his fever-dream paranoid delusions.
ReplyDeleteEhh, this still strikes me as worse. First, the comparison between the imaginary crime and the real one isn't quite so tortured as insisting that it is just like the Russian invasion of Ukraine, only worse.
DeleteSecond, because Muir's attitude on this is something that can make the world infinitely worse.
Also, Jesus freaking Christ. The Peanut Gallery gets more openly bloodthirsty by the day. They don't merely fantasize about murdering people they hate --- they have arguments about the most painful, gruesome and tortuous methods of doing so.
ReplyDeleteWhen they're not fantasizing about just nuking D.C. altogether, that is. ("Most civilians there vote for the swamp dwellers, anyway".)
I really do wonder, if such atrocities actually did come to pass in real life, whether baseline human decency would kick in and they'd be horrified, or if they'd be as overjoyed as they are in imagining it all. I hope to never find out.
I don't put much faith in their consciences. More their cowardice. They aren't prepared for a world where the targets will fire back, and where they won't instawin just by starting things.
Delete